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Sherwood (GRANVILLE HUDSON an American)

GRANVILLE HUDSON, an American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, born in Elgin, Ill., in 1878. He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.; Trinity College , Hartford, Conn.; University of Chicago; and the Western Theological Seminary, from which latter institution he received the degree of D.D., in 1917. In 1903 he was made a deacon and priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. From 1903 to 1905 he served as rector of Christ Church, Streator, Ill.; from 1905 to 1917 as rector of Trinity Church, Rock Island, Ill.; and in April, 1917, became bishop of Springfield, Ill.